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• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
• The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
• No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
• A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
• So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
• The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
• Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
• By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…

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